throwaccount12

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by throwaccount12 4y ago
I am an outsider as well, and I researched the person who wrote this letter, and he has a company that sells Gitea and is not a maintainer. This letter is in bad faith like you said.
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by throwaccount12 4y ago
I find it very interesting how the person who put together this open letter has a company they started to sell Gitea, and is not even a maintainer of Gitea. So he hasn't even voted. Seems like a very suspicious conflict of interest tha
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by throwaccount12 4y ago
Interesting that you forgot to mention the company YOU started to sell Gitea, even after multiple opportunities to mention it. I also checked the maintainer list, you have mentioned democracy many times in this thread, but yet you have not
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by throwaccount12 4y ago
AGPL has a bad reputation because it has been weaponized against the community from companies like Elastic.
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by throwaccount12 4y ago
I went to their profile, and also followed the link they posted to the public donations to connect them.
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by throwaccount12 4y ago
> What you said is false. I suspect that is why you're getting downvoted. It's not, you can confirm what I said. Look at the link in the blog post that points to public mention of it months ago, as well as the user I replied to
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by throwaccount12 4y ago
Indeed I have been active. I am passionate about funding in open source, and saw someone link this on mastodon, and so I signed up to comment on things. I only know what has been said in the blog post. I have attempted to disclose all my le
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by throwaccount12 4y ago
An enterprise version could be something like RHEL does where it's FIPS compliant or something.
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by throwaccount12 4y ago
The DAO was mentioned only around transparent governance and giving back to the community, but the blog post mentions hiring maintainers presumably with cash.
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by throwaccount12 4y ago
Maybe this new company can pay for a designer
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by throwaccount12 4y ago
I took a look at Gitea's Open Collective, and they have something like $300 coming in each month, and that there is a large amount in the account because of a few large companies, but not re-occurring ones.
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by throwaccount12 4y ago
> The entire community The blog post says maintainers have been hired, as well as the Blender blog post is months old, seems like this has been public knowledge for a while, but that it is just formally being announced now. Edit: seems I
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by throwaccount12 4y ago
You say "one of the larger contributors upstream" do you have a source for that? Because I took a look at the contributor list, and couldn't find any evidence of that.
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by throwaccount12 4y ago
Is it? The blog post calls out their participation with Blender, and reading the linked blender posts and videos where they talk about their work with the company they talk about the relationship being entirely about providing advice and su
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by throwaccount12 4y ago
It does mention DAO, which is crypto adjacent, however like you said the purpose listed in the post is to provide paid support services, the DAO is for governance of the community, not to shill some scam crypto coin.
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by throwaccount12 4y ago
Lots of focus on the DAO mention in the post, but it looking at the concrete things in the blog post instead of some "experiment", there are direct funding models of selling hosting, support services, training and more. The DAO is
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by throwaccount12 4y ago
I hold zero crypto, but by reading of the DAO is that it is one of the ways mentioned of trying to benefit the community or perhaps it will be used for community governance (elsewhere in the post it mentions hiring maintainers, and also cre
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by throwaccount12 4y ago
I read it as, a way to provide benefits from the company to contributors, but the blog post also mentions other ways of funding the community
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by throwaccount12 4y ago
I mean, that's part of the model mentioned in the post above (Instance Hosting/SaaS).